Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Section of the Villa Farnese, Caprarola, Italy, 1547-75
El Greco, Christ Healing the Blind, c. 1570
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Alberto Galvani, Pirro Ligorio + Tommaso Chiruchi, Garden Plan of the Villa d’Este, Tivoli, Italy, c. 1550-75 (via archimaps)
Carlo Rainaldi, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, and Carlo Fontana, View of Piazza del Popolo with Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria di Montesanto, Rome, Italy, 1662-82
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Sebastiano Serlio, Comic Scene (L) vs. Tragic Scene (R), Woodcut from Primo libro di architettura, 1551 (via archiveofaffinities)
Profile: Portraits of the Madonna
- Parmigianino (1503-40), The Madonna with the Long Neck, Mannerism Painting, 1535-40
- Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato (1609-85), Madonna in Sorrow, Baroque Painting, c. 1660
- Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-82), Dolorosa, Baroque Painting, 1665
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905), Virgin of the Lilies, French Classicism Painting, 1899
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Giulio Romano, Villa Suburbana del Palazzo del Te, Mantua, Italia, 1524-1534 (Mannerism)
Dismissing Michelangelo's Mannerist flourish at the top of the Porta Pia, the Medieval crenellations and multi-directionality of the ornamentation at the "centroid" of both designs relate succinctly.